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I think the question is larger than that. It's about using optimizations (or not) throughout the test suite. Right now, most benchmarks will pick up users' environmental compiler variables. That's not only compilation benchmarks, but also every benchmark that have apps compile before runnning them (i.e. audio encoding etc...). For that reason, two users with the exact same system can have very different results depending on their environment settings. Ideally, every benchmark would be compiled with specific optimizations for the CPU they run on.